Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1991

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1991
Extremadura
26 May 1991

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura
33 seats needed for a majority
Registered 821,191 Increase1.6%
Turnout 583,172 (71.0%)
Decrease3.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Luis Ramallo Manuel Pareja
Party PSOE PP IU
Leader since 20 December 1982 1990 1983
Last election 34 seats, 49.2% 17 seats, 25.4%[lower-alpha 1] 2 seats, 5.4%
Seats won 39 19 4
Seat change Increase5 Increase2 Increase2
Popular vote 313,649 155,028 41,278
Percentage 54.1% 26.8% 7.1%
Swing Increase4.9 pp Increase1.4 pp Increase1.7 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Tomás Martín Tamayo Pedro Cañada
Party CDS EU
Leader since 1983 10 December 1980
Last election 8 seats, 12.4% 4 seats, 5.8%
Seats won 3 0
Seat change Decrease5 Decrease4
Popular vote 33,313 14,452
Percentage 5.8% 2.5%
Swing Decrease6.6 pp Decrease3.3 pp

President before election

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

Elected President

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

The 1991 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 3rd Assembly of Extremadura, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura. At stake were all 65 seats in the Assembly, determining the President of Extremadura.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the largest absolute majority a party would achieve in a regional election in the history of Extremadura, with 39 out of 65 seats (60% of the seats) and slightly above 54% of the vote share. The newly founded People's Party, successor of the late People's Alliance, recovered from AP 1987 results and gained two seats. The Democratic and Social Centre lost seats and votes, falling behind United Left (IU), which gained support and finished in third place for the first time in a regional election. Meanwhile, the regionalist United Extremadura (EU) lost more than half its support and was left out from the Assembly, losing all its seats.

As a result of the election, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was elected for a third consecutive term in office.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Extremaduran Assembly was set to a fixed-number of 65. All Assembly members were elected in 2 multi-member districts, corresponding to Extremadura's two provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 25 seats allocated among the two provinces in proportion to their populations. For the 1991 election, seats were distributed as follows: Badajoz (35) and Cáceres (30).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution. Alternatively, however, if a party did not reach the 5% threshold in a district, it could enter the seat distribution on the following conditions:

Results

Overall

Summary of the 26 May 1991 Extremaduran Assembly election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 313,649 54.15 Increase4.97 39 Increase5
People's Party (PP)[lower-alpha 1] 155,028 26.76 Increase1.32 19 Increase2
United Left (IU) 41,278 7.13 Increase1.72 4 Increase2
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 33,313 5.75 Decrease6.60 3 Decrease5
United Extremadura (EU) 14,452 2.50 Decrease3.31 0 Decrease4
Extremaduran Regionalist Party (PREx) 8,643 1.49 New 0 ±0
The Greens (LV) 5,870 1.01 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 2,385 0.41 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 4,608 0.80 ±0.00
Total 579,226 100.00 65 ±0
Valid votes 579,226 99.32 Increase0.31
Invalid votes 3,946 0.68 Decrease0.31
Votes cast / turnout 583,172 71.02 Decrease3.38
Abstentions 238,019 28.98 Increase3.38
Registered voters 821,191
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
PSOE
 
54.15%
PP
 
26.76%
IU
 
7.13%
CDS
 
5.75%
EU
 
2.50%
PREx
 
1.49%
LV
 
1.01%
PCPE
 
0.41%
Blank ballots
 
0.80%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
 
60.00%
PP
 
29.23%
IU
 
6.15%
CDS
 
4.62%

Results by province

Election results by province.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 People's Party results are compared to the People's Alliance, People's Democratic Party and Liberal Party (PL) totals in the 1987 election.

References